Need a quick and easy hors d’oeurve . . .
For your grownup party AND something your toddler will gobble up like a turkey prepping for Thanksgiving? Look no further. These elegant little appetizers are a real crowd pleaser . . . at least they would be if Katie and I would stop eating them all before the crowd arrives. 🙂
Special thanks to my husband for bringing home the wrong figs that resulted in this happy accident . . . er, recipe. The juicy sweetness of the honey-drizzled figs is the perfect contrast to the creamy tartness of the goat cheese, and the pistachio adds a bit of crunch. So easy and delicious!
Fresh Figs With Goat Cheese, Pistachios And Honey
Ingredients
- Pint of fresh figs
- 4-6 oz goat cheese or homemade cream cheese
- 1/3 cup pistachios where to buy pistachios
- Raw honey-less than 1/4 cup where to buy honey
Instructions
- Slice figs about 1/8 inch thick
- Using your hands, press a small amount of chevre onto each fig
- Press pistchios into chevre
- Drizzle canapes with honey
- Enjoy!
Want more appetizer ideas?
Here are a few of my favorites:
1. Jalapeno Poppers – Cheesy and smokey with just the right amount of heat, these jalapeno poppers are perfect for game days and movie nights.
2. BLT Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes – Crispy bacon, cream cheese and some finishing ingredients make these BLT stuffed cherry tomatoes irresistible.
3. Black Bean Dip – When cooked and cooled, beans are surprisingly high in resistant starch – a type of starch that is indigestible to us, but a favorite food of the beneficial bacteria that lives in our digestive tract.
This resistant starch black bean dip nourishes our good guys and is super yummy, too. My husband’s official review for it is WHOA, which is basically five stars in his book. 🙂
4. Bacon-Wrapped Dates With Goat Cheese & Pistachios – Sweet and salty and oh-so-good!
Joanna Moore
November 10, 2010 at 8:59 AMwow these look so easy! where do you get these kind of figs? i’ve only been able to find the packaged kind at sprouts. and what kind of chevre do you recommed? i’ve never used it before.
Heather
November 10, 2010 at 10:55 AMJoanna – Fresh figs are in season right now, so you should be able to find them at Whole Foods. I buy my goat cheese from Homestead Farms – it’s delicious! It’s very similar to cream cheese.
Melinda
November 10, 2010 at 5:30 PMThis looks fantastic! Can’t wait to test it out.
Latte Da Dairy in Flower Mound has the most ah-MAY-zing goat cheese! You can actually taste the love put into her cheeses.
Maureen Wheeler
October 10, 2013 at 10:36 AMThese look fabulous! Thank you!
Kathryn VanLoon Schuman
July 23, 2011 at 8:48 AMWe have a fig tree in the back yard, need recipes 🙂
Mommypotamus
July 23, 2011 at 9:37 AMI’m hoping to try work on a few this weekend:)
Jessica Bennett Espinoza
July 23, 2011 at 10:05 AMI found some figs the other day, but was unsure what to do with them. Thanks for the idea! 🙂
Mommypotamus
July 23, 2011 at 12:02 PMYou’re welcome, Jessica! These canapes are one of my fave snacks!
Rachel Karr
July 23, 2011 at 12:09 PMTHat looks SO yummy!
Kim Martel
May 29, 2013 at 2:03 PMI love the texture combo with the squish, savory and crunch.